Will Fisher, Author at The VLM

Talking Tramlines: Day Three – “Man Alive, It’s Been Bonkers!”

Talking Tramlines is the day-by-day blog of Tramlines 2021, which today covers the final day of the festival on Sunday, 25 July. The post-festival blues hit me hard and my foggy brain is struggling to string...

Talking Tramlines: Day Two – “Big Tunes, Typhoons, and Silver Boots”

Talking Tramlines is the day-by-day blog of Tramlines 2021, which today covers the second day of the festival on Saturday, 24 July. It's day two and while walking onto the Hillsborough grass feels heavenly a...

Talking Tramlines: Day One – “None of Us Are Getting Out of This Site Alive”

Talking Tramlines is the day-by-day blog of Tramlines 2021, which today covers the opening evening of the festival on Friday, 23 July. Hearing the PAs blasting out as the Uber enters Hillsborough it dawns on...

2021 Mercury Prize Shortlist Announced

The 2021 Hyundai Mercury Prize has announced its shortlist, which this year is dominated by first-time nominations. This year's prize champions three chart-topping albums from Wolf Alice, Celeste, and Mogwai...

The VLM Mercury Prize Shortlist Predictions

It's that time of year again, already. Tomorrow (22 July) the shortlist for the Hyundai Mercury Prize 2021 will be revealed. It doesn't feel like a whole year ago since we were being introduced to the 2020 sho...

Introducing: Joshua Zero

Joshua Zero is an exciting new glitzy rock guitar artist based between Leeds and London. With three official singles so far, Zero and his band are creating waves with a genre mashing sound merging elements of s...

CHVRCHES Announce New Single and 2022 Manchester Tour Date

CHVRCHES have shared the new single, ‘Good Girls’ along with details of a UK tour for March 2022, including a date at Manchester Apollo. The Scottish trio, unveiled the single as Hottest Record on Annie Mac’...

Leeds Garden Party Festival Announce Day Ticket Sales

The Garden Party festival are set to release a limited number of day tickets this Thursday (15 July) following each day's line up reveal tomorrow at 9am. Weekend tickets to the 2021 festival, held at Globe ...

Self Esteem Announces New Album and Shares Title Track

Self Esteem, (the solo project of Sheffield's Rebecca Lucy Taylor) has shared the title track from her upcoming album Prioritise Pleasure, due for release on 22 October this year. The track follows the lead ...

Bugeye To Release Reimagined Remix Version of Debut Album

To celebrate the one year anniversary of their debut album Ready Steady Bang, Bugeye are releasing a remix album with all profits donated to Newham charity - The Magpie Project. The reimagined album to be ti...

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